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CVE-2026-33945

Abitrary file write through systemd-creds option

CVSS 10 CRITICALEPSS 0.4%CWE-22
Vexday Risk Score
28Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 10EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
26 Mar 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Incus instances have an option to provide credentials to systemd in the guest. For containers, this is handled through a shared directory. Prior to version 6.23.0, an attacker can set a configuration key named something like `systemd.credential.../../../../../../root/.bashrc` to cause Incus to write outside of the `credentials` directory associated with the container. This makes use of the fact that the Incus syntax for such credentials is `systemd.credential.XYZ` where `XYZ` can itself contain more periods. While it's not possible to read any data this way, it's possible to write to arbitrary files as root, enabling both privilege escalation and denial of service attacks. Version 6.23.0 fixes the issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
lxc · incus

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